If you’ve been investing for a while and you’ve started bumping up against the limits of your annual ISA allowance, the question of where to put the next pound of investment money becomes genuinely interesting. The default UK answer is the Stocks and Shares ISA, with its tax-free growth and

There’s a strange psychological barrier between knowing your investment platform is too expensive and actually doing something about it. People will read article after article comparing fees, work out that they’re paying hundreds or thousands of pounds a year more than they need to, and then quietly do nothing about

If you’ve started looking at where to put your first investment, you’ll have noticed that the same product appears to come in two slightly different forms. Sometimes it’s described as an index fund. Sometimes it’s an ETF. Sometimes the same global tracker is offered as both, with different ticker symbols

Go to any UK investment platform and you’ll be offered two broad types of fund. Active funds, where a manager picks investments with the aim of beating the market. And passive funds — usually called trackers or index funds — which simply mirror an index and don’t try to beat

Fees are the most boring part of investing. They’re also the only part you can control with absolute certainty. You can’t control whether the FTSE All-Share goes up or down. You can’t control inflation, interest rates, or what an American president decides to post on a Tuesday morning. But you

Category: Platforms & Charges  ·  Reading time: 9 minutes  ·  By Stuart Welch Choosing where to open your Stocks and Shares ISA is one of the first practical decisions you’ll make as an investor. It’s also one that a lot of people spend far too long on, paralysed by the number of options and